Americans are being tested right now about the kind of country and world they want to live in. At home — as children are slaughtered with easily acquired assault weapons — members of Congress must…

At first glance, it would appear Monday night’s Community Conversation was a downer.  After all, the consensus was that we have some pretty big hurdles to clear before we feel we’re on the right path,…

Viewers who tuned in Thursday to the first night of public hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were not given Washington political theater as usual. On the contrary, the broadcast…

MIAMI — Dustin Johnson sat in front of a “LIV Golf” logo in England this week and, with a straight face, said, “I chose what’s best for me and my family.” The money, he meant.…

You may think you’ve seen every horror in Russia’s kit of war crimes against Ukraine (short of weapons of mass destruction). You haven’t. Moscow is blockading (or destroying) Ukraine’s port cities on the Sea of…

If Donovan Atterberry thought about abortion at all as a young man, it was perhaps with some vague discomfort, or a memory of the anti-abortion protesters outside the clinic that he would pass on his…

National attention has turned, once again, to the gun debate following the horrific events at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas last month.  One day prior to the school shooting that killed 19 children and…

President Joe Biden gave an address at the White House on Thursday calling for Congress to pass several gun control measures after a spate of recent mass shootings. The following is a transcript of his…

Do you know what you’re asking of us? It’s Feb. 15, 2018, at 3:30 a.m., and I can’t sleep. I’m on my third or fourth sketch. My fiance wakes up and asks what I’m doing.…

The Kansas legislative year ended in a stalemate for culture warriors and without any major legislation for overall improvement of teaching and learning, because none of the bills addressed the elephant in the middle of…